Kitchen tiling: Doing corners with patterned tiles (square)

[John Benton]

you won't see a brick wall built like that.........

He didn’t ask about a brick wall………

 

[Bill]

He didn’t ask about a brick wall………

never said he did............

 

[John Benton]

never said he did............

Why bring a brick wall into the equation then……

 

[Andy Allen]

Personally I prefer it as @Boggs has tiled it, as it's ment to be a random pattern..
But as in most things tiling it's a personal choice....
If a client told me they want a random pattern then that's what they get...

 

[Boggs]

A few more for you.

The middle tile in the picture above wraps round, only just realised!
For me they look better random but that’s my personal choice and looked better with how my corners were working out.

 

[Dumbo]

Thanks all.

Ok sounds like I need to start from the center of each wall and work out to the corner.

This would mean the two tiles touching in the corner (same row) don't need to visually form a whole tile and two thin tiles touching will look ok.

The only way I can see to form a whole tile visually in each corner is to start at the beginning of one wall and work all the way around.

You don't need to have 2 thin tiles touching . Let's say you get that if you start with a grout line in the centre so move the tile over half a tile and have the middle of the tile as your centre point then you're cuts into the corner will then be at least over half a tile .

 

[macten]

I wrapped the pattern last time I did them

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I don’t know which DIY school of tiling you all went too but it certainly wasn’t on a construction site! Try getting away with not following the ‘pattern’ around the corners with an Architect or designer and see if you get paid. Any decent clerk of works will condem those corners ( but no doubt the customer will stick a microwave in front).
Perhaps aesthetics don’t come into your setting out or is it being lazy.
Now there’s something for all you tilers to disagree with !

 

[Andy Allen]

 

[Waluigi]

I don’t think it’s a black and white argument, there are grey areas.

For example, wrapping a tile around a wall should really be done in the correct manner whereby it’s a true wrap of the tile, so it follows how a complete tile would wrap around the wall, not an elongated tile. That said, it’s not always possible to do that. Wrapping a tile around so the pattern follows yet having an unusually long tile one end would look wrong to me. Likewise having a very large cut or almost complete tile in a corner and a slither the other side would also look wrong.

As with all of these things, you make the judgement for each room and each room has its own set of focal points.

I do agree that in certain situations, not wrapping a pattern round a wall would look daft- if you have two half tile cuts in adjacent corners for example.

I don’t have fixed ideas with these things though. Every tile and every scenario is different. Sometimes you have to apply an artistic license to these these.

 

[Andy Allen]

I wrapped the pattern last time I did them

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As the shapes on the pattern don't marry up, to me it looks no different to a random pattern....

 

[Waluigi]

Gotta agree. It’s not a proper pattern wrap. It’s the same tile being followed around the corner. The pattern doesn’t wrap so in this instance I would’ve chosen a different tile on the adjacent wall.

That said, I might give a completely contradictory comment if it were a different tile. Every job is different. Unless you’re on a site doing the same tile in the same kitchen x 50

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Well it certainly showed who the real tilers are - but that’s what this forum is for - all skill set levels - and plumbers!
I suppose you don’t follow a herringbone or hexagonal tile around a corner either because that would take too much setting out around a room. Just come out with any old cut and tell the customer that’s the best you can do.

 

[Blunt Tool]

Here’s my 50 cent you gotta rap or else you’re crap but don’t rave if you can hide it behind the microwave

 

[WetSaw]

If you can get random pattern tiles to wrap in every corner of the room I'll get you to pick my lottery numbers because you must be the luckiest person alive!